The Merchants of Menace
The flight plans of travellers everywhere have been perversely disrupted in a recent decision by Australia-based Qantas Airways to ground it’s aircraft around the globe. These actions typify what amounts to the paying public being used as collateral damage in the tussle between the Company and three worker Unions: TWU, AIPA and ALAEA.
Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from Paper
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Bruce Muzik: The Big Secret Nobody Wants To Tell
Bruce Muzik presents a riveting talk about the devastating impact that withholding secrets can have on our lives and what to do about it. He’s known as the ‘white man that lived for 6 months in a black ghetto’ in post-apartheid South Africa. His passion is having people experience unprecedented freedom and happiness, through being […]
Tunnel Vision
Sometimes we mistake bloody mindedness for tunnel vision. It isn’t. And it’s a common mistake among those who think it is. But where being bloody minded makes us stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to co-operate; tunnel vision on the otherhand keeps what matters central in our vision. The effect is a constricted circular tunnel-like field of […]
